Portable fence



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' PORTABLE' PBNGB. No. 263,033. Patented Aug.22,`1882.'

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A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON ENOS AND SILVANUS F. ENOS, OF ETNA, ILLINOIS.

PORTABLE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent VNo. 263,033, dated August 22, 1882.

Application nien August 2o, 188i. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern Be it known that We, SOLOMON Enos and SILVANUS F. ENOS, citizens of the United States, each residing at Etna, in the county ofColes and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Portable Fence, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improvement in fences, the object ot' the same being to construct a portable felice of such a character that its movement from one position to another will not be impeded or interfered with by snow, ice, or other Obstruction. Our improvement consists, also, in means whereby the said fence may be temporarily secured in any desired position.

Heretofore portablel fences have been provided with rollers or wheels which in some respects answer the purposeintended; but they are inefficient when snow and ice cover the ground. Fences ot' this character, owing to their portability, are specially liable to displacement. It is therefore desirable to provide some means for temporarily out rmly securing them in position. Our improvements effect the desired results.

In the drawing the figure represents in perspective a section of fencing having our im provements embodied thereon.

A is one of the fence-posts of a panel, consisting of posts and bars suitably connected and braced, each post being mounted upon a cross-bar, b. l

To each cross-bar are secured runners G G, which permit the fence to be drawn readily to its position. The runners, instead of being rendered inefficient in Winter, are as serviceable then as at any other time, and while they facilitate transportation they do not, like Wheels, render the fence unstable and liable to displacement. The ends of the cross-bars b project beyond the runners, andare provided with notches for the reception of pegs or other securing devices driven into the ground. i

lfhe fence-post may be braced by means of wiresf for by any other suitable means.

We claim- The combination, in a portab.e fence, ofthe panel, notched crossbars b b, secured to the post, and runners O C, secured to the crossbars, as and for the purpose set forth.

SOLOMON ENOS. SILVANUS F. ENOS.

Witnesses:

R. W. YOUNG, E. P. ROSE. 

